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Fibers on a graph with local load sharing

Statistical Mechanics 2009-11-11 v1

Abstract

We study a random fiber bundle model with tips of the fibers placed on a graph having co-ordination number 3. These fibers follow local load sharing with uniformly distributed threshold strengths of the fibers. We have studied the critical behaviour of the model numerically using a finite size scaling method and the mean field critical behaviour is established. The avalanche size distribution is also found to exhibit a mean field nature in the asymptotic limit.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0612384,
  title  = {Fibers on a graph with local load sharing},
  author = {Uma Divakaran and Amit Dutta},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0612384},
  year   = {2009}
}

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9 pages, 6 figures, To appear in International Journal of Modern Physics C